CLASS XVII. ORDER I. ]} CORYDALIS. 949 
our population, to say nothing of the wonderful power of machinery ; 
but for much curious information upon this article see Ure’s work 
on the Cotton Manufactories. 
CLASS XVII. 
DIADEL'PHIA. 
(Filaments combined in two sets, except in the first 
division of third order.) 
ORDER TI. 
HEXAN'DRIA. Srx SramMEns. 
GENUS I. CORYDA'LIS.—Ds Cann. Corydalis. 
Nat. Ord. Fumaria'cE®. DE Canp. 
Gen. Coar. Calyx of two small pieces, or wanting. Petals four, 
free or united, one of which is spurred at the base. Siliqua 
compressed, two valved, many seeded.—Named from HOBUOAALS, 
the ancient Greek name for Fumitory, from which genus this 
has been separated. 
1. C. so'lida, Hook. (Fig 1100.) Solid-rooted Corydalis. Root 
tuberous, solid; stem erect, simple, with a scale beneath the lower 
leaf; leaves biternate ; leaflets wedge-shaped, or oblong, cut, the seg- 
ments obtuse; bracteas palmate, with linear segments; pedicles equal, 
or longer than the capsules. 
Fumaria solida, Linn.—English Botany, t. 1471—English Flora, 
yol. iii. p. 253.—#’. Halleri, Willd.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vel. 
i. p. 265.—C. bulbosa, De Cand.—Lindley, Synopsis. 
Bulb orbicular, depressed, solid. Stem erect, simple, rarely 
branched, angular, from six to twelve inches high, leafy, the lower 
petiole dilated into a membranous sheath, leafless. Leaves a glaucous 
green, smooth, spreading, the petiole slender, fleshy, brittle, divided 
into three-branches, each of which is again divided into three, and 
bearing a leaflet, cut into three segments, and obtusely crenated. 
Inflorescence a terminal raceme of numerous variegated purplish 
inodorous flowers. Bracteas large, wedge-shaped, cut into linear 
obtuse segments. Pedicles slender, nearly as long as the bracteas. 
Calyx ‘very small, two rounded scales. Corolla irregular, of four 
unequal petals, united, the upper one with an obtuse notched reflexed 
limb, the base elongated into an obtusely pointed spur, the lower lip 
